squeekness said:
Wow, clearly you are a Rogue fan and well up on the facts. (Head hurting....
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Well I'm a fan of a number of X-Men characters that happen to include both Gambit and Rogue and have read enough issues to know most of a lot of the characters histories.
Maybe I have been a little hard on her, she just annoys me. I was almost hoping that Gambit would go with Foxx, she definitely seemed his type.
I didn't think so - maybe if he wanted a fling but that was the point that he didn't. Foxx was cheap, obvious and crass - all of Gambit's real attractions have been with women that had a unique style and some bit of strength and challenge to their personality from other thieves, to Belle, to cops, Rogue. Gambit doesn't find "easy" attractive. Actually women who throw themselves at Gambit are the ones he hasn't been that attracted to except just they are pretty. Frankly I didn't even think Foxx was that.
(We want more nekkid Gambit shower scenes!
!).
Heh.
I am surprised that Gambit got a lot of flak for being tempted,
That was absurd. I don't have a clue what Milligan is writing. Everyone is an idiot on the team right now. Emma being snotty about tempation when she cheated with Scott and them even considering Raven's request without so much as questioning if she was even sincere given her past of lies is beyond stupid.
I am not the least bit pleased with Bobby Drake right now for being such a dick about it and if you read the Iceman thread I'm not the only one who feels this way.
Bobby is being written horribly. He has been a bitter dick lately. And some of the assumptions he makes are like why would he even think that.
I am quite certain he and Lili had a fling.
I'm not. It makes no sense to me. Not that Gambit might not have a fling espeically when not with Rogue but not in the middle of a heist based on time - ever. Gambit's real vice is being a great thief. It's why what really got him going about the Geniveve incident in Paris was not sleeping with her but stealing from her the same way she stole the necklace in the first place. Gambit never lost his professional tactic with Genieve in Paris and he was way younger then - if anything Gambit is a planned professional thief or he wouldn't be suspected of so many thiefts by Interpol but with no proof. Lili was seducing him when he had only a short time to get to the cards before the guests arrived. Yes she was naked and I dont for a minute believe Gambit wanted Rogue to know a naked woman was trying to seduce him or that I do believe he likely had to kiss Lili before getting rid of her some way and even that he liked the experience but I don't believe for a minute that Gambit slept with her when he didn't have time to if he was going to steal the cards. More when we see later Gambit going after the tape, while he doesn't want Rogue to see it because as he states to the kids that she will be mad, it never acts like it will end their relationship. Heck he stops in the middle of getting the thing to play/train them. He's just not that worried about it. Sure he jokes she'll put him in traction but he never says anything about her ending their relationship. If he really was that worried, he'd never tell the kids what he was after either and he was very clear what was on the tape (a woman trying to seduce him) despite that they would have been more impressed if he said it was a sex tape.
I am not so certain that Rogue diferentiates between "together time" and "we are not together time."
Oh i think she does. I even wonder if she breaks up with him to "give him off time". There have been a few break ups that made little sense any other way and she does even try to break up with Gambit when she thinks he's attracted to Foxx so he can have a fling with Foxx until Gambit tells her he doesnt want to. But they are together at the moment anyway.
I have such a thing in my fanfiction where when Rogue says they are still a couple Gambit is faithful, but when they bicker and separate for a while he is not. I never got that explicitly said in the comics.
They never have but we have seen him with others when they have been apart - at least after the first time and as I said it even makes sense in a way for Rogue to be setting that up when she feels guilty about her power.
I think she would be pissed if she knew about Lili. Gambit does too, he didn't want her to see what was on that disc.
Oh I think she'd be PO'd at a naked woman after him when they are together especially knowing she can't do that which is why I think Gambit didn't tell her about Mystique either. Because it was her mother but also I don't think Gambit would want Rogue to know how often women might actually come after him. It just brings the issue up when it's not needed and Rogue already has a reasonable insecurity about not being able to do that with him. Also in the case of the Lili thing, remember that the girl Ginny sent it to Rogue under Gambit's name. Think about if your guy mailed you a tape (not that he did but since it came supposedly from him) with a naked woman on it after him even if he didn't go all the way with her and the two of you can't touch? What would you think he was trying to tell you? Rogue does a have a temper and acts first and asks questions later. Gambit was trying to avoid having the fight and the explaination which he knew would be painful but didn't seem to think it would last and they'd get over it as noted above since he really wasn't trying all that hard to get it. If he really had sex with Lili on that tape, Rogue would be more than just upset for a bit and Gambit acts like it's too much of a joke with the kids for me to think he was really that worried it would break him and Rogue up for good - he more acted like they would just have a fight over it that he wanted to avoid but not that it was the end.
So yeah I don't see that he had a fling with Lili. The wrong reaction is there for that no matter what Ginny and her mother said - both of them were shown to exagerate and lie for their reasons over and over especially with Gambit so I don't trust their hints on it. Ginny over reacted to anything Gambit did with a woman even the female cop pecking him on the cheek or patting his butt when Gambit didn't want her to and wasn't even the least attracted to the cop. Gambit's actions at the mansion are not of a man so desperate to get that CD that he basically spends most of the time joking around with kids.
